Sahih al-Bukhari · The Book of Wudu (Ablution)

11- بَابُ لاَ تُسْتَقْبَلُ الْقِبْلَةُ بِغَائِطٍ أَوْ بَوْلٍ إِلاَّ عِنْدَ الْبِنَاءِ جِدَارٍ أَوْ نَحْوِهِ:

(11) Chapter. While urinating or defecating, never face the Qiblah except when you are screened by a building or a wall or something like that.

1 hadith · references 144–144

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Bukhari · 144إِذَا أَتَى أَحَدُكُمُ الْغَائِطَ فَلَا يَسْتَقْبِل الْقِبْلَةَ وَلَا يُوَلِّهَا ظَهْرَهُ ، شَرِّقُوا أَوْ غَرِّبُواAllah's Messenger (ﷺ) said, "If anyone of you goes to an open space for answering the call of nature he should neither face nor turn his back towards the Qibla; he should either face the east or the west."5 narrators